Luc de Heusch
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
-
Birthday
1927-05-07
Day of Death
2012-08-07 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Brussels, Belgium
Luc de Heusch
Biography
Luc de Heusch (7 May 1927 – 7 August 2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles . His 1967 film Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
Luc de Heusch began his career in film in 1947 as assistant to Henri Storck . From 1949 to 1951 he lived in an artists' commune, the Ateliers du Marais. In 1951, under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie , he directed Perséphone , the only film produced by the CoBrA artistic movement.
In 1953 and 1954 he carried out anthropological fieldwork in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi . Like Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire , he also made documentary films about the Congo.
From 1955 to 1992 he was professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Brussels , later Université libre de Bruxelles.
Known For
Acting
(1984)
De droomproducenten
as Self
Crew
Fête chez les Hambas
Director, Writer
(2023)
Nkumi, everyday life
Director
(2023)
Burial among the Tetela
Director
(2023)
Lotoko
Director
(2004)
Ostende 1930
Director, Editor
(1995)
Une république devenue folle
Director
(1990)
(1984)
In the Footsteps of the Pale Fox
Director
(1972)
Dotremont-les-logogrammes
Director
(1970)
Alechinsky d'après nature
Director
(1968)
Libre examen 1968
Director
(1967)
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Director, Dialogue
(1961)
Les amis du plaisir
Director
(1960)
Magritte or the Object Lesson
Director, Writer
(1958)
Gestes du repas
Director, Screenplay
(1957)
Michel de Ghelderode
Director
(1951)
Perséphone
Director